ANITA GUERRINI1
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ANITA GUERRINI History Department
OregonStateUniversity
306 Milam Hall
Corvallis, OR97331-5104
541-737-1308 fax 541-737-1257
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Horning Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History
Adjunct Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
Education
IndianaUniversity
Ph.D. History and Philosophy of Science1983
Dissertation: "Newtonian Matter Theory, Chemistry, and
Medicine, 16901713" Advisor: R.S. Westfall
M.A. History and Philosophy of Science1980
OxfordUniversity
M.A. Modern History 1977
ConnecticutCollege
B.A. History (summa cum laude), minor in Music 1975
Previous Academic Positions
University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor, Environmental Studies and History2004-2008
Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and History 1999-2004
Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies and History1995-1999
Lecturer, Department of History 1989-1995
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Visiting Assistant Professor, Program in
History of Science and Technology 1986-1988
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of
History of Medicine 1985-1986
Awards and Honors
Winthrop Scholar, Connecticut College1974
Phi Beta Kappa1974
Indiana University Alumni Association Award1981
Santa Barbara Writers Conference, Award for Excellence in Travel
Writing2007
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science2009
Postdoctoral Grants and Fellowships
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship 1984-85
Franklin Grant2007-08
University of California, Los Angeles
Clark Library Postdoctoral Fellowship 1985
National Science Foundation
Research Grant 198789
Research Grant (“Animals and Anatomy in Early Modern Europe”) 1998-2000
Investigator, Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological
Research (SBC-LTER)2003-
Consultant, “Pushing the Limits”2010-
Huntington Library
Fletcher Jones Fellowship 198990
BeckmanCenter for the History of Chemistry
Travel Grant1990-91
American Historical Association
Bernadotte Schmitt Grant1990-91
University of California, Santa Barbara
Interdisciplinary HumanitiesCenter Award 1993-94, 1997-98, 2003-04
Faculty Career Development Award1997-98
Compass Project Grant for Undergraduate Education 1998-99
Pearl Chase Fund Grant (with J. Dugan)2001-03
Academic Senate Research Grant2002-03, 2006-07
Research Across the Disciplines Grant (with J. Dugan)2002-04
Regents’ Humanities Faculty Fellowship2003-04
Interdisciplinary HumanitiesCenter Course Relief2006-07
OregonStateUniversity
Center for the Humanities Residential Fellowship 1994-95
University of Edinburgh
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities summer 1998
Centre Alexandre Koyré, CNRS, Paris
Chercheur associé1999-2000
AustralianNationalUniversity, Humanities Research Centre
Visiting Fellowspring 2003
National Endowment for the Humanities
Collaborative Projects Grant (co-PI with J. Dugan,
“Historicizing Ecological Restoration”)2003-07
University of California President’s Fellowship in the Humanities
(“The Courtiers’ Anatomists”)2007-08
Publications
Books
Natural History and the New World, 15241770.An Annotated Bibliography.
American Philosophical Society, 1986
Second edition (revised), 2002 <
Obesity and Depression in the Enlightenment: The Life and Times of George Cheyne.
Series for Science and Culture, University of Oklahoma Press, 2000 (Hardcover and paperback)
Experimenting with Humans and Animals: From Galen to Animal Rights
Introductory Studies in the History of Science, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 (Hardcover and paperback), second printing 2009
Edited volumes
British Ballads and Broadsides, 1500-1800, ed. Patricia Fumerton and Anita Guerrini
(Ashgate, 2010)
The Representation of Animals in the Early Modern Period, ed. Domenico Bertoloni Meli and Anita Guerrini, special issue of Annals of Science, 67:3(July 2010)
Journal articles
James Keill, George Cheyne, and Newtonian Physiology, 16901740,
Journal of the History of Biology, 18:2 (1985): 247266
The Tory Newtonians: Gregory, Pitcairne and their Circle,
Journal of British Studies, 25:3 (1986): 288311
Archibald Pitcairne and Newtonian Medicine,
Medical History, 31:1 (1987): 7083
The Ethics of Animal Experimentation in SeventeenthcenturyEngland,
Journal of the History of Ideas, 50:3 (1989): 391407
John Keill's De operationumchymicarumrationemechanica
(Introduction, transcription, translation), translated with Jole R. Shackelford,
Ambix, 36:3 (1989): 138152
Case History as Spiritual Autobiography: George Cheyne’s “Case of the Author,”
Eighteenth-Century Life, 19:2 (May 1995), 18-27
The Varieties of Mechanical Medicine: Borelli, Malpighi, Bellini, and Pitcairne
Nuncius, 27 (1997), 111-128
The Hungry Soul: George Cheyne and the Construction of Femininity
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 32:3 (spring 1999), 279-291
A Diet for a Sensitive Soul: Vegetarianism in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Eighteenth-Century Life, 23:2 (May 1999), 34-42
Duverney’s Skeletons
Isis, 94:4 (December 2003), 577-603
Anatomists and Entrepreneurs in Early Eighteenth-Century London
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 59:2 (April 2004), 219-239
Alexander Monroprimus and the Moral Theatre of Anatomy
The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 47:1(spring 2006), 1-18
The Virtual Ménagerie: The Histoire des animaux Project
Configurations 14: 1 (2006), 29-41(published 2008)
Theatrical Anatomy: Duverney in Paris, 1670-1720
Endeavour33(March 2009), 7-11
The King’s Animals and the King’s Books: the Illustrations for the Paris Academy’s Histoire des animaux
Annals of Science, 67:3 (July 2010), 383-404
Health, Natural Philosophy, and the English Diet in 1700
Studies in History and Philosophy of Sciences, Part A, 41:4 (Dec. 2010) (forthcoming)
Book chapters
Isaac Newton, George Cheyne, and the "Principia Medicinae,"
inThe Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century, ed. Andrew Wear and Roger French (Cambridge University Press, 1989), 222-245
"A Club of Little Villains": Rhetoric, Professional Identity and Medical Pamphlet Wars,
inLiterature and Medicine during the Eighteenth Century, ed. Roy Porter and Marie Roberts (Routledge, 1993), 226-244
Ether Madness: Newtonianism, Religion, and Insanity,
inAction and Reaction, ed. Paul Theerman and Adele F. Seeff (University of Delaware Press, 1993), 232-254
Chemistry Teaching at Oxford and Cambridge, circa 1700,
inAlchemy and Chemistry in the XVI and XVII Centuries, ed. Antonio Clericuzio and P.M. Rattansi (Kluwer, 1994), 183-199
Newtonian Medicine and Religion,
inReligio Medici: Religion and Medicine in Seventeenth Century England, ed. Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham (Wellcome Institute Series, Ashgate, 1996), 293-312
Robert Boyle's Critique of Aristotle in The Origin of Forms and Qualities
inThe Commentary Tradition on Aristotle’s De generatione etcorruptione, ed. J.M.M.H. Thijssen and H.A.G. Braakhuis (StudiaArtistarum series, Brepols, 1999), 207-219
“A Scotsman on the Make”: The Career of Alexander Stuart
inThe Scottish Enlightenment: Essays in Reinterpretation, ed. Paul Wood (University of Rochester Press, 2000), 157-176
The Rhetorics of Animal Rights
inApplied Ethics in Animal Research, ed. John P. Gluck, Tony DiPasquale and F. Barbara Orlans
(PurdueUniversity Press, 2001), 55-76
The Burden of Procreation: Women and Preformation in the Work of George Garden and George Cheyne
inScience and Medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment, ed. Charles Withers and Paul Wood (Tuckwell Press, 2002), 172-190
The Creativity of God and the Order of Nature: Anatomizing Monsters in the Early Eighteenth Century,
inMonsters and Philosophy, ed. Charles Wolfe (KCL Press, 2005), 153-168
The Eloquence of the Body: Anatomy and Rhetoric at the Jardin du Roi,
inSustaining Literature. Essays in Commemoration of the Life and Work of Simon Varey, ed. Greg Clingham (BucknellUniversity Press, 2006), 271-287
Natural History, Natural Philosophy, and Animals, 1600-1800
in A Cultural History of Animals, vol. 4, 1600-1800, ed. Matthew Senior (Berg Publishers, 2007),
Animal Experiments and Anti-vivisection Debates in the 1820s,
inFrankenstein’s Science, ed. Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall (Ashgate, 2008), 71-85
The Trouble with Plovers
inNew Visions of Nature: Complexity and Authenticity, ed. Jozef Keulartz, Martin Drenthen, and James D. Proctor (Springer, 2009), 75-89
Advertising Monstrosity: Broadsides and Human Exhibition in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
in British Ballads and Broadsides, 1500-1800, ed. Patricia Fumerton and Anita Guerrini (Ashgate, 2010), 109-127
Scots in London Medicine in the Early Eighteenth Century
inScots in London in the Eighteenth Century, ed.StanaNenadic(Bucknell University Press, 2010), 165-185
Informing Ecological Restoration in a Coastal Environment, with Jenifer E. Dugan
inRestoration and History, ed. Marcus Hall (Routledge, 2010), 131-142
The Value of a Dead Body
inVital Matters, ed. Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall (University of Toronto Press, in press)
Essay Reviews
The Pathological Environment
The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 31:2 (1990), 173-179
The Truth about Truth
Early Science and Medicine, 3:1 (February 1998), 66-74
Anatomizing the Renaissance
Early Science and Medicine, 6:1 (February 2001), 35-38
Forewords, Prefaces, Introductions
Introduction, special review section on “The New Culinary History”
Early Science and Medicine, 4:2 (May 1999), 164-65
Introduction (with Domenico Bertoloni Meli), special issue The Representation of Animals in the Early Modern Period,
Annals of Science, 67:3(July 2010)
Foreword, Artisan/Practitioners and the New Sciences, 1400-1600, by Pamela O. Long
Horning Series in the Humanities, Oregon State University Press, 2011 (in press)
Reviews
Over 100 book reviews in Albion, American Historical Review, Annals of Science, Archives internationalesd’histoire des sciences, Anthrozöos, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Canadian Journal of History, Early Science and Medicine, Eighteenth-Century Scotland, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Thought, H-Environment, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Isis, Journal of American History, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of the History of Biology, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Medical History, Nuncius, Restoration, Rivistastoricaitaliana, Sixteenth-Century Journal, Social History of Medicine, The Public Historian, The Scriblerian, University of Toronto Quarterly, Victorian Studies
Encyclopedia and Biographical Dictionary Articles
John Banister, ?1650-1692
John Bartram, 1699-1777
William Bartram, 1739-1823
in Biographical Dictionary of American and Canadian Naturalists and Environmentalists, ed. K.B. Sterling, Richard P. Harmond, George A. Cevasco, and Lorne F. Hammond, (Greenwood, 1997)
Animal Care and Experimentation
Anatomy
Dissection
inOxfordCompanion to the History of Modern Science, ed. John Heilbron et al. (Oxford, 2003)
Zoology
inEurope 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, ed. Jonathan Dewald (Scribner’s, 2003)
David Gregory (1659-1708)
Patrick Blair (?1680-1728)
James Keill (1673-1719)
James Sutherland (?1638-1719)
George Preston (?1665-1749)
Charles Preston (1660-1711)
Thomas Pellett (?1671-1744)
George Cheyne (?1671-1743)
Archibald Pitcairne (1652-1713)
Edward Tyson (1651-1708)
Alexander Monro I (1697-1767)
Alexander Stuart (1673-1742)
William Cockburn (1669-1739)
John Freind (1675-1728)
William Cole (1635-1716)
Frank Nicholls (1699-1778)
Richard Mead (1673-1754)
Lady Elizabeth Hastings (1682-1739)
James Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton (1702-1768)
inOxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Colin Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford, 2004)
George Cheyne
inDictionary of Medical Biography, ed. William Bynum and Helen Bynum (Greenwood Press, 2006)
Non-academic publications
Making English the official language won’t promote assimilation
Op-ed, Minnesota Daily (University of Minnesota), 24 November 1986
Writing with a sense of history
A View from the Loft, October 1987, 6-7, 13
Contributor to Fodor’s Travel Guides, 1988-1992
From Montecito to Goleta and Back – the Story of the Campbells
Montecito Magazine, spring/summer 2010, 58-66
Echoes of another oil spill
Op-ed, The Oregonian (Portland, OR), 24 June 2010 (online)
Book review, Craig Childs, Finders Keepers. (2010)
The Sunday Oregonian (Portland, OR), 22 August 2010, page O9 and online
Roast Beef and… Salad?
History Today, February 2011, 36-43 and online
Work in progress
The Courtiers’ Anatomists: Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris (book, under contract)
The Hermaphrodite of Charing Cross: Monsters and Anatomists in Eighteenth-century London (book)
“The Hermaphrodite of Charing Cross” (article, to appear in volume on human experimentation, ed. Larry Stewart)
Beach Stories: History and Ecology on the California Coast, ed. Jenifer E. Dugan and Anita Guerrini (edited volume)
“An Ecological History of the Campbell Ranch, from the Mission era to 1945,” in Beach Stories, ed. Jenifer E. Dugan and Anita Guerrini
Oceans and Origins: American Oceanography in the Twentieth Century, ed. Helen Rozwadowski and Anita Guerrini (edited volume)
Recent Papers delivered (past ten years)
Animals and Public Anatomy in the Early Eighteenth Century
Boston Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, BostonUniversity, February 2001
Duverney’s Skeletons
Keynote lecture, De Bartolo Conference in Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of South Florida, February 2001
Inside Out: The Order of Presentation in Eighteenth-Century Anatomy
Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Saskatoon, October 2001
The Scots Connection: the Douglas Brothers and London Anatomy before Hunter
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Colorado Springs, April 2002
An Impolite Science: Public Anatomical Demonstration in the Eighteenth Century
Plenary Lecture, Conference “Frankenstein’s Science,” Australian National University, April 2003
Workshop “Death in the Eighteenth Century,” IndianaUniversity, May 2003
“Une petite émeute” [a little riot]: Anatomy at the Jardin du roi in the Early Eighteenth Century
Western Society for French History, Newport Beach, October 2003
From (Public) Natural Philosophy to (Private) Science
Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Newport Beach, October 2003
The Hermaphrodite of Charing Cross
British History Seminar, Huntington Library, January 2004
History of Science colloquium, UCLA, October 2004
Messing About in the King’s Garden: the Histoire des animauxproject
Conference in honor of Paul Farber, OregonStateUniversity, April 2004
The Animal Machine in the Garden: the Histoire des animaux project
Society for Literature and Science, DurhamNC, October 2004
Chicken Ranching and High Society: the Campbell Ranch in the 1920s
The Westerners, Santa Barbara, March 2005
The Virtual Ménagerie: the Histoire des animaux project
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, April 2005
Violence and Violation: Anatomy in late Seventeenth-Century Paris
Conference "The Body’s Secrets Unlocked: Early Modern Anatomy and Anatomies," USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, Huntington Library, October 2005
The Animal as Artifact: The Histoire des animaux project,”
Workshop “Images of Man –Images of Nature,” DiGiorgi Research Center, Scuola NormaleSuperiore, Pisa, November 2005
Advertising Monstrosity: Broadsides and Human Exhibition in the early 18th century,
Conference “Straws in the Wind: Ballads and Broadsides 1500-1800,” Early Modern Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 2006
The Value of a Dead Body: William Hunter’s Anatomy Lectures
Conference “Vital Matters,” Clark Library, UCLA, March 2006
Writing Ecological History
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Montréal, April 2006
High Society in Goleta: the Campbell Ranch in the 1920s
UCSB History Associates, Santa Barbara, April 2006
Goleta Valley Historical Society annual meeting, January 2007
Coastal Dynamics: Restoring a California Wetland, with Jenifer Dugan
Workshop “Restoring or Renaturing,” Zürich, July 2006
Anatomy as Natural History: Duverney, Perrault, and the Histoire des animaux
History of Science Society, Vancouver, November 2006
The Trouble with Plovers
Workshop “New Visions of Nature: Beyond Mastery,” Wageningen, Netherlands, June 2007
Historical Connections and Coastal Landscapes, with Jenifer Dugan
Ecological Society of America/Society for Ecological Restoration, San Jose, August 2007
The Campbell Ranch, with Jenifer Dugan
Special meeting of UCSB administrators, September 2007
Animals, Anatomy, and Natural History in Louis XIV’s Paris
National Library of Medicine, October 2007
Animals, Humans, and the Spectacle of Public Anatomy
Abjection and Spectacle conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 2008
Anatomy and the Origins of the Paris Academy of Sciences
History of Science and Medicine colloquium, UCSF/UCB, April 2008
Humans and Animals in Early Modern Anatomical Illustrations
Keynote address, conference “The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2008
The King’s Animals and the King’s Books
Conference“The Culture of Print in Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 2008
Do Animals have a History? – and why should we care?
Inaugural lecture for Horning chair in the Humanities, OregonStateUniversity,
February 2009
Who was the anatomist in the seventeenth century?
Westfall Lecture, Indiana University, March 2009
The Illustrations for the Paris Academy’s Histoire des animaux
Workshop“The Representation of Animals in the Early Modern Period,”Center for the History of Medicine, Indiana University, March 2009
Animals, Anatomy, and the Scientific Revolution
Symposium and workshop, “Finding Animals: Toward a Comparative History and Theory of Animals,”Penn State, April 2009
Locavores and Carnivores: Health and the English Diet in 1700
Symposium“Food and Medicine 1650-1820,”Wellcome Institute, London, May 2009
Animals in the Landscape in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
First World Congress on Environmental History, Copenhagen, August 2009
History and Ecology in a Coastal Context
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife seminar, OregonStateUniversity, September 2009
The Histoire des animauxand the Early Publication Projects of the Paris Academy ofSciences
History of Science Society annual meeting, Phoenix, November 2009
What We Talk About When We Talk About History: Deep History, Evolutionary History, and the History of Science
Rainger symposium, Texas Tech, January 2010
Animals, Humans, and History
Wittreich Lecture, University of Louisville, May 2010
Lions and Stray Cats: The Animal Projects of the Paris Academy of Sciences
Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History, MIT, September 2010
The Ghastly Kitchen
History of Science Society annual meeting, Montréal, November 2010
Comments:
Session “Science and Medicine in the Public Sphere”
Western Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Berkeley, February 1997
Conference “The Case History in Chinese Medicine”
UCLA, January 1998
Conference “Society, Politics, and the Scientific Revolution”
UCLA, November 2000
Panel “Health Care in America”
UCSB, January 2001
Roundtable on Anne Vila, Enlightenment and Pathology
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, New Orleans, April 2001
Alan Wallace, “The Intersubjective Worlds of Religion and Science,”
Templeton lecture series on “Science, Religion, and the Human Experience,” UCSB, June 2001
Roundtable “Feminist Approaches to Pedagogy”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Colorado Springs, April 2002
Session “Deviant and Devious Women”
PacificCoast Conference on British Studies, SonomaStateUniversity, April 2003
Comment on papers on Charlotte Smith by Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook and Adriana Craciun
Gender Studies colloquium, UCSB, November 2003
Roundtable “The Nature of Knowledge”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Boston, March 2004
Roundtable “Academic Professions, Women’s Lives”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, April 2005
Session “Early Modern Science and Colonial Communities of Knowledge”
Omohundro Conference, UCSB, June 2005
Session “Illness and ‘Illnesses’ from the Sixteenth through the Nineteenth Centuries”
PacificCoast Conference on British Studies, Newport Beach, March 2006
Closing comments, conference “Science and Technology, 1500-1800”
Early ModernCenter, University of California, Santa Barbara, March 2008
Session “Representing Animals”
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, OR, March 2008
A Conversation on Ecological Restoration
Spring Creek Project, OregonStateUniversity, February 2009
Roundtable “Science and Literature”